EFFECT OF BRAINSTORMING TECHNIQUE ON TURKISH ORIGINED STUDENTS WRITING SKILLS
BEYİN FIRTINASI TEKNİĞİNİN TÜRK SOYLU ÖĞRENCİLERİN YAZMA BECERİLERİNE ETKİSİ

Author : Oğuzhan YILMAZ
Number of pages : 179-187

Abstract

In the modern world where communication technologies improve and a new technology is introduced into man’s life, writing still maintains its importance though in different forms. Writing has of course the biggest role in the ways of basic expressions. The present study is to reveal whether brainstorming technique has an effect on Turkish origined students writing expressions. In the study where experimental design was adopted, a study group of 24 randomly selected students from Ablaihan International Relations and World Languages University and Kazakh Abai National Pedagogical University was composed. In order to collect data for the study, students were given instructions including writing topics then each student was instructed to conduct writing on each instruction. After writing was completed, data were collected and analyzed into words, sentence and paragraphs. Arithmetic means of words, sentences and paragraphs each student used in the texts were found separately. The results obtained were analyzed through SPSS 15.0 program. The results showed that using some technique (brainstorming) before writing prompting students prior knowledge and having them improve their writing skills in this sense contributed to the formation of the text with more thinking, so that before writing the students using brainstorming and making comments accordingly about the texts to be written used 90 words, 11 sentences and three paragraphs in average more than those in the control group.

Keywords

Brainstorming, Writing, Turkish Origined Students, Method, Skill

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